“No one can claim privilege above the law. It cannot happen in the United States.”— David Clarke, circa.com
“They signed a pledge saying they will abide, saying they will back the candidate of the party. They broke their word. In my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again because what they did is disgraceful.”— Donald Trump, talkingpointsmemo.com
“Unless the United States builds a wall, Mexicans will swarm across the border, enroll in law school en masse, and eventually become biased judges”— Donald Trump, newyorker.com
“The reason America is such a horror story is that the entire thing is built on an Old Indian Graveyard.”— Frankie Boyle, stopwar.org.uk
“Not only will I stand up for Article One, I’ll stand up for Article Two, Article 12, you name it of the Constitution.”— Donald Trump, talkingpointsmemo.com
“I will be so good at the military, your head will spin. But obviously, I’m not meeting these people. I’m not seeing these people Now, as far as what you’re talking about now, I will know every detail, and I will have the right plan, not a plan like this where we’re probably going backwards based on…”— Donald Trump, politico.com
“I feel that gun-free zones, that’s target practice for the sickos and for the mentally ill. They look around for gun-free zones.”— , time.com
“Even if Republicans are persuaded that Hillary Clinton is Claire Underwood out of ‘House of Cards’—well, Claire Underwood is a more stable person to have in office than a cross between Sauron and Bozo the Clown.”— Going There with Donald Trump, newyorker.com
“If my father in law’s fast-moving team was careless in choosing an image to retweet, well part of the reason it’s so shocking is that it’s the actual candidate communicating with the American public rather than the armies of handlers who poll-test ordinary candidates’ every move.”— Jared Kushner, observer.com
“It doesn’t take a ton of courage to join a mob. It’s actually the easiest thing to do.”— Jared Kushner, observer.com
“Donald Trump is a clown — literally, he could be in the circus. He’s getting huge support from people who are angry at everything. Mostly white males. Working-class, middle-class, poor white males. And their wives and traditional families. They are furious about everything.”— Noam Chomsky, rawstory.com
“Let’s free entrepreneurs to do what they do best: innovate, grow and hire and make sure that the new service and care giving jobs being created today are jobs that pay well, too. And that does mean raising the national minimum wage.”— Hillary Clinton, time.com
“We’ll never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who have rigged it in the first place.”— , time.com
“Not every good job in the economy of today and tomorrow requires a four-year college degree.”— Hillary Clinton, time.com
“The Bernie campaign is hypersensitive to any whiff of being treated as a smaller, protest candidacy, to failures to acknowledge that Sanders won more than 40 percent of the primary vote, or to being dismissed by what they see as the Democratic establishment. And an endorsement of Hillary Clinton by…”— Edward-Isaac Dovere, politico.com
“But if, as in this election, a man who spews hate and vulgarity, with no comprehension of how government works, can become presidentially plausible because he is magnetic while a capable, workaholic woman who knows policy inside and out struggles because she is not magnetic, perhaps we should reeval…”— Brigitte Lacombe, nymag.com
“I am still amazed at the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger to governor—a man who has never held political office and who participated in only one serious debate. It is a disturbing sign in any nation when politics have become so inefficient and corrupt that the people turn to an outsider as ‘strong…”— Camille Paglia, salon.com
“Last week, none of the three major cable news networks — CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC — carried Mrs. Clinton’s speech to a workers’ union in Las Vegas, where she debuted sharp new attack lines against Mr. Trump.Instead, each chose to broadcast a live feed of an empty podium in North Dakota, on a stage wh…”— Michael M. Grynbaum, nytimes.com